Word: sauceritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That afternoon a startled young actress listened in saucer-eyed wonder as M. Maurice Goudeket explained that his wife, the great Colette, had personally picked her to play the lead in a Broadway play. A few weeks later, after an expensive exchange of cablegrams and consultations with Broadway Producer Gilbert Miller, Author Loos herself flew to London to confirm Colette's judgment. "I tried to explain to all of them that I wasn't ready to do a lead," said Audrey in New York last week, "but they didn't agree, and I certainly wasn...
...Cover) A man in a flying saucer- swooping in low over the U.S. last week- would have had the best of all vantage points for seeing America at its newest mass sport. On just about every navigable body of water, from oceans to big creeks, flecks of white canvas dotted the waterscape like daisies in a field. Coming lower, the saucer man could have seen highways specked with thousands of small trailers. On each, trundling for the nearest water, rested wooden hulls, some almost bathtub shaped, others as sleek as streamlined as space ships...
...other, waiting for vagrant puffs of breeze, or just lazing along. Sometimes, in a strong puff, one or more blew over; but after thrashing about in the water for a while their crews climbed in again, bailed, and sailed on or waited for a tow. In short, as the saucer man would have been fully justified in reporting to his interstellar G2, the Americans have found a big new way of getting sunburned, soaked to the skin and happily exhausted...
...smaller, two-story block for executive offices. Placed above both is the governor's residence, with a roof garden above it, sheltered by an enormous crescent of concrete. A short distance away, with the Himalayas as a background, Chandigarh will have its crowning edifice: a simple, saucer-shaped amphitheater with a huge, free-swinging mobile at one end cast in the shape of an open hand, a traditional Indian symbol of friendship and welcome...
Secondly, I was impressed by the arena presentation. Tufts uses the saucer-type arena with the audience on four sides. It is an interesting thing to observe, and particularly effective for this play...